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Opposition Mp Posed Several Questions To Ministers As They Criticize 2016 Budget.

Ministers will provide answers on Tuesday.

PHILIPSBURG:--- Several members of the opposition in Parliament criticized the draft 2016 budget that is now being debated in parliament. MP Johan Janchi Leonard played started off his questions by trying to show how the elderly is struggling to survive with the pension they received. Leonard said he applied for a working documents for someone and he proposed to pay that person NAF 1,500 per month and instead of the department of labor telling him that he should try and find a local they asked how he expect anyone to live on that kind of monies Read more

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Urgent Central Committee Meeting About Status Of Police Matters Scheduled For Tuesday Postponed

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The Central Committee meeting that was scheduled for February 23 has been postponed at the request of the Members of Parliament who requested the meeting.

The Central Committee meeting was set for Tuesday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg.

The agenda point was the status of insurance coverage for Police Officers and their families and other related and affected issues.

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Permanent Committee Of Kingdom Affairs And Inter-Parliamentary Relations Scheduled To Meet Wednesday On Eight-Point Agenda.

PHILIPSBURGL---- The Central Committee meeting that was scheduled for February 23 has been postponed at the request of the Members of Parliament who requested the meeting.

The Central Committee meeting was set for Tuesday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg.

The agenda point was the status of insurance coverage for Police Officers and their families and other related and affected issues.

This urgent meeting was called Read more

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Urgent Central Committee Meeting About Status Of Police Matters Scheduled For Tuesday Postponed.

PHILIPSBURG:---- The Central Committee meeting that was scheduled for February 23 has been postponed at the request of the Members of Parliament who requested the meeting.

The Central Committee meeting was set for Tuesday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg.

The agenda point was the status of insurance coverage for Police Officers and their families and other related and affected issues.

This urgent meeting was called Read more

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Urgent Central Committee Meeting About Status Of Police Officers Insurance Coverage Scheduled For Tuesday.

PHILIPSBURG---- The Central Committee will meet in an urgent session on February 23. The Minister of Justice will be present for the sitting of the House.

The Central Committee meeting has been set for Tuesday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg.

The agenda point is the status of insurance coverage for Police Officers and their families and other related and affected issues.

This urgent meeting was called by the United People’s (UP) party faction Members of Parliament (MP) Tamara Leonard, (MP) Franklin Meyers, and Independent (MP) Leona Marlin-Romeo.

Members of the public are invited to the House of Parliament to attend parliamentary deliberations.

The House of Parliament is located across from the Court House in Philipsburg.

The parliamentary session will be carried live on St Read more

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Mp Tamara Leonard Ask About Non-Receipt Of Answers From Budget Meeting

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - United People’s (UP) party Member of Parliament Tamara Leonard has sent a letter to Chairwoman of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams on 
Thursdayasking why she has not yet received answers from the Council of Ministers on questions she posed in last week’s Central Committee Meeting on the draft 2016 budget.

The MP asked in  her letter for an update on the answers and indicated answers are needed as soon as possible Read more

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Tot Is ‘Disruptive’ To Growth, Says Gibson

PHILIPSBURG--The five-per-cent turnover tax (ToT) is “disruptive” and an “impediment to economic growth” due to its “multiplier effect” on the cost of goods and services, Finance Minister Richard Gibson told Parliament on Wednesday.

“We have to do away with it or move it down,” Gibson said of the ToT. He has the same belief about the country’s profit tax. It is tough to enforce the profit tax system, he said Read more

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Proposal Mp Tamara Leonard (Up): Drastic Cut In Political Salaries And Pensions

St. Maarten News: MP Tamara Leonard is the second MP in Country St. Maarten’s history to propose a pay-cut for parliamentarians. On January 16, 2014, former DP-MP Roy Marlin submitted a motion to cut salaries by 12 percent, after the draft budget showed that all members of the Council of Ministers had decreased their remuneration by 30,000 guilders for that year.

Marlin’s motion failed, because none of the other fourteen Members of Parliament supported it Read more

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Four Mps Question Budget Allocations

PHILIPSBURG--Only four Members of Parliament (MPs) have so far questioned the allocation in the draft 2016 budget as its handling started in the Central Committee of Parliament on Monday. Only MP Tamara Leonard (UP) requested information related to the budget in writing prior to the start of the debate Read more

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Mp Tamara Leonard To Present Motion To Lower Mps’ Salaries

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — United People (UP) party Member of Parliament Tamara Leonard intends to submit a motion during the budget handling in the plenary session of Parliament to lower the salary of Members of Parliament (MPs) Read more

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Mp Tamara Leonard Request Info About Government Consultants

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten  – United People (UP) party Member of Parliament Tamara Leonard has requested a list of all consultants working for Government and their associated consulting fees and benefits (housing, allowances and transportation etc.) per ministry.

MP Leonard urged Government in the letter to provide the information requested prior to the start of the Central Committee meeting on the draft 2016 budget Read more

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Mp Tamara Leonard Request Info About Government Consultants

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten – United People (UP) party Member of Parliament Tamara Leonard has requested a list of all consultants working for Government and their associated consulting fees and benefits (housing, allowances and transportation etc.) per ministry.

MP Leonard urged Government in the letter to provide the information requested prior to the start of the Central Committee meeting on the draft 2016 budget Read more

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Scell’S Journalism Course Starts At Usm.

PHILIPSBURGL--- On February 2nd 2016 The University of St.Martin’s School of Continuing Education & Life-Long Learning, (SCELL)’s, Journalism course commenced.

The course, “Journalism, Understanding What’s New About News” had started out as a vision of the Member of Parliament, Hon. Tamara Leonard and the “I AM SXM” foundation, and through a collaborative initiative between the former Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic & Telecommunications (TEATT), Mr Read more

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Urgent Parliament Meeting Requested About Nipa Issue

PHILIPSBURG--An urgent Parliament meeting has been requested about issues related to the National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA) by Members of Parliament (MPs) Leona Marlin-Romeo (independent), Read more

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No Support For Budget From Mp Tamara Leonard

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten – United People’s (UP) party Member of Parliament (MP) Tamara Leonard says the draft 2016 budget will not have her support, because it has nothing to generate additional revenue to better the position of Government and by extension the people of St Read more

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Mp Marlin-Romeo And Colleagues Request Urgent Meeting Of Parliament About Nipa

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten – A letter was sent on February 2nd 2016 to the President of Parliament requesting an urgent meeting with the Minister of Education Youth Affairs and Sports on the issues related to the National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA).

Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Cornelius de Weever and MP Tamara Leonard, supported the request for an urgent meeting taken into consideration the press releases and recent newspaper articles that highlight the management, financial dilemma, court cases, lack of payment to the staff of NIPA.

The responsible minister is being requested to give an account on the ongoing issues as the reputation, the continuity of NIPA and the quality of education is at stake Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- A letter was sent on February 2nd 2016 to the President of Parliament requesting an urgent meeting with the Minister of Education Youth Affairs and Sports on the issues related to the National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA).

Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Cornelius de Weever and MP Read more

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